Fireworks Debate Sparks Council Action on Permit Ordinance
The council debated waiving a Friday deadline as Bond sought an ordinance permitting safe and sane fireworks with a $100 permit and $100 cleanup deposit. City Atty Putnam urged rescinding Feb 10’s 440-3 vote rejecting repeal of the fireworks ban, a move Sharp supported after shifting positions. the rescind motion passed 5-3.
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Bond
Ordinance Committee
Afernoon
Ant
Wade
Leonard Putnam
Putnam
Sharp
Zodiac Killer Letters Highlight Bay Area Slayings
Police note at least four Zodiac attacks since 1968 with five killed including Vallejo couples in 1968 and 1969, a Lake Berryessa victim, and a San Francisco cab driver Paul Stine in 1969. A shirt fragment and a November 1969 note arrived at the Chronicle, and a December 1969 letter to Melvin Belli urged help.
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Bay Area
Zodiac
Vallejo
Lake Berryessa
San Francisco
Paul Stine
the Chronicle
Melvin Belli
High Cost of Pollution War Cited
SACRAMENTO Assembly Speaker Robert T. Monagan said Earth Day speakers raise the issue of pollution costs. He urged a statewide bond issue for cleanup funds and supported a tax increase if earmarked for a specific environmental program, noting that people are polluters and must pay.
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Sacramento — Assembly
Robert T. Monagan
Monagan
Winds, ships prompt Caribbean drills and California wind warnings
Strong winds gusting to 50 mph furl across the South, closing a 60 mile stretch of Interstate 10 and prompting weather advisories from the Weather Bureau. The same day in Washington, six U.S. ships including Guadalcanal were deployed to the Caribbean to evacuate Americans from Trinidad amid Black Power disturbances.
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Interstate 10
Weather Bureau
Palmdale
Lancaster
Big Bear
Idyllwild
Highway Patrol
Los Angeles County
Oxnard
Blythe
Desert Center
Riverside County
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San Gabriel
Pl. Concepcion
Mexican
Washington
Guadalcanal
Caribbean
Trinidad
Pentagon
School Employees May Join Strike in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles, about five thousand city school employees vote on joining a strike with 13,000 teachers. Local 9 of SEIU says the Board of Education forced the walkout by threatening layoffs to balance a 1970 71 budget. Supt. Kelly cites 42 million in cuts. mediation is sought as teachers contend for a contract while absences mount.
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Los Angeles
Service Employes International Union
Board of Education
Robert Kelly
United Teachers of Los Angeles
Reader Q and A covers permits cash Johnny Cash profile
Last June a Bellflower resident learned a city permit was not on file for an aluminum awning. A decorative co. spokesman says forms are filed and Bellflower notified. The column then covers Johnny Cash’s life from Arkansas birth in 1922 through career, legal troubles, and views on prison, noting he never served time in prison. A postage stamp question explains postcard stamps are not interchangeable. A counseling query points to Long Beach Parish Service for affordable child counseling with fees based on ability to pay, call 436-0803.
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Anaheim
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Air Force
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Tenn
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Mexico
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Norwalk
U.S. Post Office
Philatelic Division
Los Angeles Post Office
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Paramount
Parly Service
Long Beach
Pine Ave
Earth Day Observed in Nation
Earth Day events across the United States included a stay of execution for a car slated to be crushed by Enumclaw junior high students, a Boulder group urging reduced electricity use to curb air pollution, Jamestown Kiwanis plans to dump sand to show pollution, and Canadian US women picketing Zug Island over pollution by Great Lakes Steel Corp. The observance traces to Sen Gaylord Nelson who proposed a national teach in after the antiwar mobilization.
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Wash
Frei Krueger
Boulder
Colo
Jamestown
le Kiwanis Club
Canada
United States
Zug Island
Detroit River
Great Lakes Steel Corp
Earth Day
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Rise in Cost of Living Outpaced Retail Prices
The March inflation report shows average city purchases cost 13.32 instead of 10.00 ten years earlier. Mortgage rates at 4.5 percent boosted living costs, medical care rose 5.1 percent, and eggs fell while new and used goods prices declined. Dr. Joel Popkin notes inflation remains significant despite some easing. wholesale prices rose the least in seven months.
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Joel Popkin
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Let Me Die Free Long-Time Fugitive Seeks Pardon
Leonard T. Fristoe, 77, requests clemency from the Nevada State Pardon Board to die a free man. A former fugitive who fled in the warden's roadster in 1920 after killing two sheriff's posse members, he spent 47 years evading capture under the alias Claude BR Willis before returning to prison. He faces a life sentence, enjoys minimal security, and awaits the board’s action with Gov. Paul Laxalt and state officials on the agenda.
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Carson City
Nev
Leonard T. Fristoe
State Pardon Board
Fristoe
Nevada State
Reno
Claude BR. Willis
Mexico
California
Canada
Paul Laxalt
Supreme Court
Here
Big shakeup in Russ propaganda agencies
MOSCOW the Soviet Union removed the chairmen of two key committees in information and propaganda and named a new Tass director. Nikolai Mesyatsev and Niklai Mikhailov were ousted. Sergei Lapin moved to lead Radio and Television. Leonid Zamyatin named Tass director after serving as Foreign Ministry press chief.
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Soviet Union
Tass
Nikolai N. Mesyatsev
State Committee For Radio and Television
Niklai A. Mikhailov
Sergei Lapin
Radio and Television Committee
Foreign Ministry
Leonid M. Zamyatin
Lapin
Tax Break Abuses by GIs Probed in Hearings
Washington inquiry uncovers GIs and officers using quick trips to South Vietnam to claim large tax breaks. Air Force officials acknowledge a planned clamp on the loophole as Defense Department tests directives. Testimony cites two-year pattern with Korea and Japan abuses and exemptions for partial-month service, including pilots.
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Hawai
South Vietnam
Air Force
Air
Robert¢. Seamans Jr
John D. Ryan
Air Chief of Staff
Dunward B. Crow
Ahores Comptroller
Defense Department
Korea
Japan
Robert L. F. Sikes
Dfia
Hawaii
Thailand
Okinawa
Philippines
Sikes
Vietnam
Ex-Solon Refused Pardon by Nixon
WASHINGTON An appeal for pardon by former Maryland Rep. Thomas F. Johnson has been rejected by President Nixon. Johnson, 60, a Democrat, faces a six month prison sentence stemming from his conviction in 1968 on a charge of accepting $17,400 to persuade the Justice Department to drop a mail fraud charge against a savings and loan officer.
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Maryland
Thomas F. Johnson
Nixon
Jonson
Justice Department
Agaist
Savings and Loan
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